Adam Granduciel

I didn't want to start aiming for fame. It would be silly to not have entertained offers.

— Adam Granduciel

I was a bouncer, if you can believe it for a while in a sports bar. I let everybody in.

— Adam Granduciel

Not everyone who writes about you is going to be a fan of your music.

— Adam Granduciel

When I learning to write songs, I never really was interested in the chorus.

— Adam Granduciel

When I was a kid I was definitely into Neil Young.

— Adam Granduciel

Sometimes it's hard for me to just be the guitar player and lose myself.

— Adam Granduciel

All of my favorite music was probably in the rock category.

— Adam Granduciel

I just need to work. There's no other thing with me.

— Adam Granduciel

When you make a record, you get to live in an imaginary world where you have the best kind of band on…

— Adam Granduciel

I don't like drums dictating the song; like when you hear a fill and then you know the chorus is coming up.

— Adam Granduciel

My mom and dad never really had friends, never went on vacations. We stayed home. And I see a similarity there: A…

— Adam Granduciel

The Heartbreakers were what you imagine being in a band would be like - best buddies and great players and guys who…

— Adam Granduciel

With 'Under the Pressure,' I just found two chords I liked, and built it up, did like a ten-minute drum pattern.

— Adam Granduciel

I like to work hard and I like to work for somebody. I like to stay late and clean up the back…

— Adam Granduciel

That little window like 2004 through like 2010 was probably the most, like most inspiring time of my creative life, for sure.

— Adam Granduciel

I love Tom Petty the way a lot of people love him. He's got so many amazing songs, and you know them…

— Adam Granduciel

I immediately felt welcomed, whereas in Massachusetts, I'd grown up there but I felt like such an outsider. Within a week or…

— Adam Granduciel

I've never set out to do anything other than get better at guitar and record and have fun. I feel like the…

— Adam Granduciel

I would spend about eight months on a song, leaving it alone and going back to it later on. I just kept…

— Adam Granduciel

Somewhere between this kind of cruising freedom, and this understated moment where all these little things intertwine to create a bigger sound.…

— Adam Granduciel

It's cool that our stuff is received as it is, and our stuff is fairly long. But from a songwriter's purview as…

— Adam Granduciel

I've seen people who like a certain song write on their Instagram what they think the lyrics are - which they aren't.…

— Adam Granduciel

I started guitar when I was like thirteen. I had a friend whose dad had an electric guitar. In sixth grade or…

— Adam Granduciel

I always work on the songs all together up until the very end. I never mix a song and think, "Okay, now…

— Adam Granduciel

I usually know the general emotion of a song, or the general feeling of it, and then I think I just get…

— Adam Granduciel

When you're in the moment and not over thinking the song is when things tend to really work. You're not so focused…

— Adam Granduciel

Every show with my Jazzmaster is like a new show.

— Adam Granduciel

I never have a clear goal or a theme when it comes to writing an album.

— Adam Granduciel

I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day.

— Adam Granduciel

Everyone hears a song a different way and hears timing a different way.

— Adam Granduciel

It's rare in life to look at all the people around you and realize that they're all invested in what you're doing.

— Adam Granduciel

I ended up renting a studio in L.A. for about 15 months. Starting in January of 2016, some of the guys in…

— Adam Granduciel

All those crazy Impressionist painters in France were friends but they would write about how jealous and competitive they were. That's what…

— Adam Granduciel

As he grew older, his material was just as relevant and just as exciting and the band's just as killer... It seems…

— Adam Granduciel

I learned Neil Young songs, Bob Dylan songs and older songs. It wasn't until I moved to Philly that I had aspirations…

— Adam Granduciel

I think where a lot of the stuff came from is that it started as something else and then it was transformed…

— Adam Granduciel

I try to just keep chipping away at, you know, this little idea you may start with and then work on something…

— Adam Granduciel

I'm still undisciplined in the fact that I'm not writing anything down. I just get these lines and start piecing it together…

— Adam Granduciel

I don't know what the sound is or the song is until I've spent a lot of time on it. I'm always…

— Adam Granduciel

In terms of tone and style, I've always been influenced by a lot of different players. I love Nick Drake, Mike Bloomfield…

— Adam Granduciel